Location-Based Storytelling
Exploring Culture via Geolocation
The course features content from a partnership between the teams from the website The Music Origins Project and the film on the history of Detroit Techno God Said Give Em Drum Machines. Students will explore how the team from the film uses various digital storytelling techniques to tell stories about dance music culture in Detroit. The program challenges students to explore the landmarks and institutions from Radio Stations and Labels to Record Stores, that created Detroit Techno using VR/360-degree technology. We will also be providing students with an understanding of digital storytelling across mediums used in the film God Said Give Em Drum Machines. Learn more about the project on the page Detroit Techno 101.
This location-based storytelling course will provide you with tangible skills, tools, and resources that you can use to tell location-based stories across the mediums of film, maps, and social media.
By the end of this project, you will be able to:
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how locations based stories can be told across a variety of platforms
- Explain what Latitude and Longitude is and how these terms can help someone find their way to a location
- Understand what GPS is and how it is used to find locations
- Understand the x and y-axis on a coordinate plane
- Understand what Google Street Views are and how maps help us in our day to day lives
- Understand the need to preserve historic locations
- Understand how Google maps can help businesses to be discovered by new patrons
- Understand how geolocated storytelling can be used to add new dimensions to films and other media
LOCATION-BASED STORYTELLING IS COMING SOON!!!